Whether chasing a score or setting one, digging in at the crease after taking centre is the key to winning at Test cricket, with the best XIs adept at batting for hours and hours on end.
Throughout the game's well-chronicled history, many batters have notched tonnes, double tonnes and, on the rare occasion, triple tonnes during their stays at the popping crease.
However, on this list, we have concerned ourselves solely with the teams that combined to post mammoth totals over marathon stretches.
From Bradman's Invincibles on foreign soil to a supreme Sri Lankan effort in Colombo, here is every instance of a Test cricket team scoring at least 700 runs in a single innings.
| Total | Team | Opponent | Venue | Innings | Date |
| 952/6d | Sri Lanka | India | Colombo | Second | August 2, 1997 |
| 903/7d | England | Australia | The Oval | First | August 20, 1938 |
| 849 | England | West Indies | Kingston | First | April 3, 1930 |
| 790/3d | West Indies | Pakistan | Kingston | Second | February 26, 1958 |
| 765/6d | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | Karachi | Second | February 21, 2009 |
| 760/7d | Sri Lanka | India | Ahmedabad | Second | November 16, 2009 |
| 759/7d | India | England | Chennai | Second | December 16, 2016 |
| 758/8d | Australia | West Indies | Kingston | Second | June 11, 1955 |
| 756/5d | Sri Lanka | South Africa | Colombo (SSC) | Second | July 27, 2006 |
| 751/5d | West Indies | England | St John's | First | April 10, 2004 |
| 749/9d | West Indies | England | Bridgetown | Second | February 26, 2009 |
| 747 | West Indies | South Africa | St John's | Second | April 29, 2005 |
| 735/6d | Australia | Zimbabwe | Perth | First | October 9, 2003 |
| 730/6d | Sri Lanka | Bangladesh | Mirpur | Second | January 27, 2014 |
| 729/6d | Australia | England | Lord's | Second | June 27, 1930 |
| 726/9d | India | Sri Lanka | Brabourne | Second | December 2, 2009 |
| 715/6d | New Zealand | Bangladesh | Hamilton | Second | February 28, 2019 |
| 713/3d | Sri Lanka | Zimbabwe | Bulawayo | Second | May 14, 2004 |
| 713/9d | Sri Lanka | Bangladesh | Chattogram | Second | January 31, 2018 |
| 710/7d | England | India | Birmingham | Second | August 10, 2011 |
| 708 | Pakistan | England | The Oval | First | August 6, 2011 |
| 707 | India | Sri Lanka | Colombo (SSC) | Second | July 26, 2010 |
| 705/7d | India | Australia | Sydney | First | January 2, 2004 |
| 704/3d | Sri Lanka | Ireland | Galle | Second | April 24, 2023 |
| 701 | Australia | England | The Oval | First | August 18, 1934 |
